wusa9 news at noon begins with breaking news. one lane and the shoulder of the inner loop of the beltway just reopened bft american legion bridge. -- before the american legion bridge. about an hour ago, a tractor- trailer snack jiefed -- jackknifed after an accident with an suv.

we don't know how long it will be before the road is completely opened. we'll have updates on that as soon as they become available. if you have a family member stuck in this, you need to get around it. that's why monika samtani is here. even though you see to lanes getting by, it's the beltway. eight coming up from tysons corner. the inner loop is northbound 495. look at this black line on our traffic feature where delays begin almost to tysons corner. if you're heading out the door, you absolutely want to excuse your alternate -- choose your alternate routes. you don't have a lot of options if you're a virginia driver. you can get off the georgetown pike. police are diverting traffic there and route 123. you can take the clain bridge. another problem you is can't -- chain bridge. another problem you is can't make the left on canal road. you have to go to arizona avenue, make a left there and left on mcarthur to get yourself back on the beltway. the option is to take the beltway the other way around.

or have lunch in tysons corner. how about that? >> good advice. thank as lot, monika. the first alert weather team has been tracking yet another storm, this one is supposed to get here by the end of the week. however, howard has some new information that could change that. howard, take it away. >> we've been watching this for a few days coming out of the gulf coast area. today we're looking fine. we have one piece of energy to our south. the sun has been out. it's actually pretty nice out there. what's going to happen, another area of low pressure is going to form on the front. the first one passes but it's the second one we told you about yesterday. we're still watching it. by thursday it will start to come out of the louisiana- mississippi area. it will be moving toward the north and east. thursday afternoon atlantic gets the rain to greensburg, spartanburg. as we head into thursday night, midnight, now a little potential freezing rain south of lynchburg here moving into southwestern virginia. looks a little dicey maybe down in roanoke friday morning but when this gets here, even if it gets this far north, it should be late friday in the form of rain. so not worried about that as

much as we were yesterday. >> thanks, howard. police are trying to find the driver who hopped a curb and hit a building in bethesda this morning. it happened just after 9:00 a.m. in front of the price galleries on wisconsin avenue near woodmont avenue. bethesda now reports the driver did not stay on the scene. the damage to the truck, though, appears to be worse than the damage to the building. ox road other than known as route 123 in fairfax county is back open after a truck lost a 10,000-pound concrete slab at about 5:30 this morning. sky 9 was over the scene near silver brook road just after it happened. the accident shut down a portion of the road for about three hours but no one was hurt. heavy police presence replaced some backpacks and books on the month montgomery college campus in rockville.

someone inscribed school shooting march 5, 2014 in charcoal. back in january someone wrote another threat in the men's campus of the germantown campus. a number of students told us they were not going to classes today. >> we're doing everything we can to be understanding, to be accommodating. if students do contact their professors and say they're worried about coming to the college today, we're understanding. >> police say they are taking these threats seriously and they're investigating both cases. still no answers in a germantown homicide that left a 20-year-old man dead. montgomery county police say they found the man on ox bridge drive near route 355. officers got a shooting call around 10:00 last night near drum castle court a short distance from where the victim was found. investigators say there is a preliminary suspect description but at this point they cannot confirm that description.

prince george's county police are hoping that you can help them bring home a missing girl. take a look at this picture if you would, marisha davis is her name. she's 13. she was last seen saturday along mckinley street just south of allentown road in temple hills. if you have seen her or know where she s please call police. fairfax county residents could be in for the largest property tax hike since the recession started. the board of supervisors voted last night to advertise a tax rate as a dollar 10 per $100 of assessed value. that's 2 cents higher than the current rate. each cent increase adds up to about $50 on the average taxpayer's bill. several public hearings will be held next month on the measure to discuss it. maryland house of delegates is taking up a bill to increase the state's minimum wage today. the measure would raise the rate to $10.so an hour by -- $10.10 an hour by 2017. president obama will be on the road pushing his 2015

budget and the federal minimum wage will be his focus at central connecticut state university which is in new britain. he wants congress to raise it to $10.10 an hour. after his speech at the college, the. is off to boston for two democratic fund-raisers. today the house of representatives is set to take its 50th vote to modify the affordable care act. the senate isn't likely to take up the measure that would push back the individual mandate for a year. but as jan crawford reports, another delay is already in the works. >> reporter: with consumers outraged over cancellations, the:announced last november that americans could keep their plans for another year, even if they did not meet the affordable care act's basic coverage requirements. >> i completely get how upsetting this can be for a lot of americans, particularly after assurances they heard from me that if they had a plan that they liked, three could keep it. to those americans, i hear you loud and clear. >> reporter: now cbs news has

learned the administration will allow insurers to offer the substandard plans even longer, avoiding another round of cancellations just week es before the mid-term election -- weeks before the mid-term election. one senator says the white house is trying to protect vulnerable democrats, not consumers. >> if you look at the timing of it, it's designed to delay right after the 2014 elections. we already know what happened when people started to receive cancellation notices last time. >> reporter: news of the extension comes just three weeks before another critical obamacare deadline, march 31, the last day to sign up for coverage through an insurance exchange. last month the vice president warned enrollment goals may not be met. >> initially we talked about why the end of this period, having seven million people lined up, we might not get to seven but we'll get the five or six, and that's a hell of a

start. >> that was jan crawford reporting. mental health workers in virginia have a new tool to help them find open beds in psychiatric hospitals when they have a patient in crisis. an online registry went live earlier this week. this issue got a lot of attention after state senator creigh deeds was attacked by his son back in november. you may remember gus deeds was released from an emergency custody facility because health care workers couldn't find him an open bed. 13 hours later he stabbed his father and then killed himself. the virginia department of behavioral health and development services says the new registry can now search for private psychiatric hospital, state facilities, and crisis stabilization units to find a bed now. a minivan with three kids inside goes off the road and then into the surf. we have video of the rescue and thlatest on the investigation coming up. >> here's a look at the inner loop of the beltway just before

the american legion bridge. we saw some lanes getting by a few minutes ago but now police say they were just letting some traffic pass. all lanes of the inner loop are still closed. right now traffic is backed up to tysons. we'll keep you posted on this throughout

things are getting pretty ugly along 27th street in northeast d.c. adam zuckerman told us about a long line of potholes. they stretch from military road to broad branch. drivers are actually driving on the wrong side of the road to avoid the pots holes. adam says basically the entire road is a pothole. well, we hear you, adam. that's why 27th street northwest d.c. is our pothole alert of the day. we're reporting this to the proper authorities. we'll stay on top of it until everyone's nerves and front end alignments are back where they're needed. >> if you know of a pothole,

give us the street block and cross street if possible. and if it is safe, only if it is safer, send us a picture as well. so how did a pregnant mother end up driving her minivan into the atlantic ocean with her three kids still strapped in their seats. the rescue was caught on camera. now emergency workers are trying to find out why. terrell brown reports. >> reporter: this video captures the moments on the beach in daytona. a minivan drifting deeper and deeper into the atlantic with a mother and her three small children. witnesses say the vehicle was moving along the beach at the water's edge and then suddenly plunged into the ocean. >> my friend pointed out that there was a car getting really close to the beach and actually started driving on the water. and i saw a little kid in the back like waving his arms around, like screaming help, help, help us. then the car kept going deeper. >> reporter: bystanders rushed